"courseware" meaning in English

See courseware in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɔɹswɛɹ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-courseware.wav [US] Forms: coursewares [plural]
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  1. (computing) Educational software or documents in computerized form that facilitate course-based learning and teaching. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (educational software): לומדה (lomdá) [feminine] (Hebrew), software educacional [masculine] (Spanish), software educativo [masculine] (Spanish), software didáctico [masculine] (Spanish), སློབ་ཚན་གྱི་མཉེན་ཆས (slob tshan gyi mnyen chas) (Tibetan)

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